84: Is Bedrock Edition holding Minecraft Back?

Should Minecraft be a lot further on than it is, in terms of development of quality of life features, new mobs, blocks and items?

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In this episode, Foxy and Slack discuss the Mob Vote including how terrible it is for the community and how much of a negative impact it must have on the actual developers at Mojang. They also discuss how Modded Minecraft is setting such a high bar for the Vanilla game, and realistically, in 10 years, Minecraft really hasn't progressed much.

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Minecraft - 1.20.32 (Bedrock)
https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/20077082600077-Minecraft-1-20-32-Bedrock-

Minecraft Beta & Preview - 1.20.40.24
https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/20073657838989-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-1-20-40-24

Minecraft Beta & Preview - 1.20.50.20
https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/20297322879245-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-1-20-50-20

Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot - 23w41a
https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/20298295897229-Minecraft-Java-Edition-Snapshot-23w41a

Mob Vote
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/live

Mob Vote Petition #StopTheMobVote
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-mob-vote-put-an-end-to-the-scrapping-of-great-ideas

KingBDogz
https://twitter.com/kingbdogz/status/1709694484571730194

Sliced Lime
https://twitter.com/slicedlime/status/1711631021333004581
https://twitter.com/Ivan_Gamby/status/1711635031121138049

Bugdate

Unable to type any text after writing on a sign and pressing Esc
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-175072

Enchantment glint showing as solid blocks of material 
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-174535

Hopper minecart sucks disk from jukebox while on a powered activator rail
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-175779

Good Ideas Bin

Cauldrons under beehives to collect dripping honey
- Suggested by GAABTY

Piglin Brutes (in any bastion type) have a very rare chance to drop a netherite armor
- Suggested by Maihck (Mike)

Watermelons break as a full watermelon with a piston like pumpkins do
- Suggested by Muffin

An in game method to locate a slime chunk
- Suggested by GAABTY

Place signs and then have to click to edit
Instead of instantly putting them into edit mode
- Suggested by Peony

A toggle in settings to allow for the chance of a Nether spawn when creating a new world
- Suggested by GAABTY

Ability to transfer enchantments from one item to another on the anvil
- Suggested by Coffee_76

Non-full blocks render from further away
- Suggested by JenFire

Freestanding and free-hanging ladders
- Suggested by thebigbluefrog

Petfood bowls that set the home location for a pet wolf or cat.
The pets then stay in that area and don't wander off
- Suggested by Mossy

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